Floored... By Our Love for Wood ; Cowboy Builders and Higher Insurance Premiums Our Desire for Boards Is Proving Costly

Mail on Sunday › March 04, 2007

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Come home to a real wood floor, scream the adverts; all fitted in a day. And thousands of homeowners have fallen for the sales patter with dire results.

According to the insurance industry, household premiums will rise sharply next year partly due to an increase in 'water-escape incidents' burst pipes. While carpets can soak up a lot of the water from a burst pipe, wooden floors cannot.

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Floored... By Our Love for Wood ; Cowboy Builders and Higher Insurance Premiums Our Desire for Boards Is Proving Costly

It isn't just that wooden floors are causing collateral damage from flooding, however. Homeowners are being caused a lot of trouble by the way the fl...

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